Or perhaps it's just a marketing stunt in this outrage culture. Adapt or go under, they said. It will give you lots of attention, they said. Seems to work great, as evidenced by even more outrage. *throws popcorn* If you're aware of the explosive climate, why add fuel to the fire by resorting to name calling? This solves what exactly?

Big Earl?

NeoGaf isn't that bad anymore, not since the all the crazies moved to ResetEra. It's actually worth using now, and from what I can tell you no longer get banned for simply having an opinion.

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As far this debacle (how many are we up to now with CDP and social media accounts?) wish I could say I'm surprised but I'm not. It's bad enough to get yourself into this mess... it's even worse to then bow down and apologize wherever someone is offended. News flash CDPR / GOG it's 2018, everyone is offended about something. They will get over it (and hopefully grow as individuals because of it). This sheltered life that people are living in this day and age is beyond more harmful then what any one person could say with words.

I'm buying less and less from GOG recently and using it far less. This is by no means the primarly reason why, but I am quite tired of companies having no backbone and this is probably the final nail in the coffin for me.

EDIT: Also what is happening to that employee is wrong and I hope CDPR takes action to protect him or her rather than punishing said employee.

Oh, good. That bed of screech owls has gone full 4chan, eh?

Guess it won't be long before that domain is reported.

I'm tempted to do so myself.

No one called gamers a hate movement, try again.

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4chan at least in the olden days was a place for grown ups who pretended to be young dipshits - that was the joke, and also you could see that through the satirical texts.
Going full retard on someone for real, like here, is something else - and definitely an effect of progressed time and failed upbringings. In my opinion humanity peaked in the 90s.

Well, I mean, if you remember, that kind of marketing strategy has worked for GTA many times over. It's sort of a standard playbook move these days.

1. Generate outrage from radicals
2. Make sure there's lots of attention on the upcoming product
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!

Some insight on the situation and some clarification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrCuegAvbW0


Doesn't seam to work for Battlefield 5. Pre-orders went down 85% compared to Call of Duty BO4.

I'm ok thanks! Yeah, I went away camping for a couple of weeks so I wasn't really on the forum much. How are you?

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I tend to think that has more to do with the fact that it's EA we're talking about here. CDPR still has lots of good will from gamers. EA and DICE these days? Not so much.

this was the towline but it was always a towline.

as for the resetera thing, let me just say that first I do not recognize the term "SJW". that said, I'm surprised these supposed proactive progressives would stoop to this kind of thing.

finally, it's a twitter account get real. it's not like it was something in the times or some bestselling author or something from some academic area. some asshole comedian can go up on stage and tell rape jokes and jokes about WW2 and jews but CDPR does something stupid on twitter (medium of bite-sized stupid because stupid is better at stupid when bite-sized) and suddenly it's cause for harassment?

and who cares if they apologized? what were they going to do? as a business concern, they're likely going to do whatever can get them an inch every single moment. the math was that they probably would gain more by just apologizing and attempting to reset than not doing it.

which is off course why they are doing so badly these days, no one wants their games anymore.

The article you linked to is behind a paywall. Is it safe to assume it's an EA is failing article? I don't think EA will fail perse, at least not for a while.